"It is the same old story, my friends - the same old story of the natural man. Men are trying today, as they have always been trying, to save themselves - to save themselves by their own act of surrender, by the excellence of their own faith, by mystic experiences of their own lives. But it is all in vain. Not that way is peace with God to be obtained. It is obtained only in the old,
old way - by attention to something that was done once for all long ago, and by acceptance of the living Savior who there, once for all, brought redemption for our sin. Oh, that men would turn for salvation from their own experience to the cross of Christ; oh, that they would turn from the phenomena of religion to the living God!" - John Gresham Machen
Salvation does not come "by their own act of surrender, by the excellence of their own faith, by mystic experiences of their own lives," but by what has been accomplished by Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God, revealed by the Spirit. "He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." ~2 Corinthians 5:21
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